TRANSPORTATION SERVICES

www.uos.harvard.edu/transportation/shu.shtml
175 North Harvard Street, Allston
617-495-0400

Shuttle Bus Service (fully accessible)

The bus service is designed to provide Harvard community members with safe, convenient transportation throughout the Cambridge and Allston campuses during the academic year. The service is free to members of the Harvard community. During the academic year, scheduled service includes: weekdays from 5:40 am to 4 am, weekends from 7:30 am to 4 am (Friday and Saturday night the service operates until 5 am).

Pocket-sized schedules are available throughout the campuses, including the Information Center located in the Holyoke Center arcade, House offices, libraries, dining halls, registrars' offices, and passenger transport vehicles. For more information, please call 617-495-0400. There is also a special year-round service which operates on weekends, holidays, recess periods, and during the summer months daily between Soldiers Field Park, the Quad, Harvard Square, and Lamont Library, mornings from 7:35 to 11 am and afternoons from 4 to 7:30 pm.

Medical School Shuttle Service

The Harvard M2 Shuttle runs year-round, Monday through Saturday (Monday through Friday during the summer), between Quincy Street in Harvard Square and Vanderbilt Hall at the Longwood Medical Area campus. Students at HMS, HSPH, HSDM, DMS, GSAS, FAS, HBS, as well as Harvard University faculty and staff, need only swipe their University ID card to ride the bus for free. Other Harvard graduate students must either purchase tickets at the M2 ticket offices or add value to their Crimson Cash account. The shuttle is operated by MASCO (Medical, Academic, Scientific, and Community Organization). For more information, please call MASCO at 617-632-2800 or view the website at www.masco.org/transit/ptsM2.htm.

Daytime Van Service (fully accessible)

The Van Service is intended for persons who, because of mobility impairment or medical condition, find it difficult or impossible to use the regular shuttle bus. Transportation is door to door within the Cambridge and Allston campuses. Rides in the van are by appointment only. All riders must be authorized in advance by either the Accessible Education Office, their local disability coordinator (students), or the University Disability Coordinator (faculty/staff). Service times vary for academic, weekend, summer, and recess periods. Please call 617-495-0400 for specific service times and reservation requirements. The TTY phone number is 617-496-6642.

Evening Van Service (fully accessible)

The Evening Van Service is designed to provide safe transportation throughout the Cambridge and Allston campuses as a supplement to the shuttle bus service. This service is designed to transport off the bus routes. Rides are free and available on demand between 7 pm and 3 am nightly, last call received at 2:30 am. Please call 617-495-0400 for more information and service requests.

Motorist Assistance Program (MAP)

The University Parking Services provides free on-campus emergency road service for faculty, staff, students, and visitors who need help charging a dead battery, changing a tire, or retrieving keys that have been locked inside a car. This service is available between 7 am and midnight, Monday through Friday (except University holidays). Please call 617-496-HELP.